Playing THE BEST aggro deck in MTG

[@Shaqfu69]

Shaq Fu here, we've had a couple matches over the last few months that have turned into absolute back and forth drawn out brawls and have legitimately been some of my favorite matches in recent memory, made all the more fun by the fact that they're against you. Keep up the great work, love the content

[@Shaqfu69]

PS sorry to slow roll, I'm pretty sure I misclicked and then had to dig my way to another bounce spell

[@AfroDan9000]

@@Shaqfu69 He could actually beat you, because he drew the monstrous rage and had mana for it but thought he didn't have it.

[@darksteeldemon7751]

@@AfroDan9000 Nah, he was holding up snakeskin veil for a bounce spell, if he went all in on monstrous rage and his mouse got bounced, he would have been dead in the water

[@AfroDan9000]

@@darksteeldemon7751 Missed that, thanks.

[@BerniOnLineTV]

Nice simic deck! Do You hav the decklist? Please

[@imaginarymatter]

I just love how the mice deck can Cheese out wins.

[@MrFelblood]

They need to keep pushing a good rat/mouse deck in every block, so this pun can live forever.

[@LordZurkov]

Glad to see the opening clip is the Ol' Red Counterspell. Even when CGB is playing the two colors most diametrically opposed to blue, he still manages to keep their important spells from resolving.

[@Greg501-]

Player removal is spell removal

[@samsimmons8370]

At 34:12 you had priority between first and regular strike. Since it sure seemed like they didn't have it, you could have raged and shocked for the win

[@ocha-time]

5:21 "Patience" - Never the answer. This is BO1, you go face as hard as possible and ram the rest of the cards in whatever inch you find later. If you're lucky you trigger an instinctual gag reflex in them and they hit concede before their next turn

[@TheAndrwwJohnson]

He's a control player at heart so he forgets player at 2 life is easier to kill, especially with one blocker. Even with life link they would have been at 5 after their attack which is much easier to it than 23 he let them heal to

[@cookies23z]

overtgored! letsgo! gruul smash! I do enjoy watching you try to pilot aggro, sometimes the control brain makes mistakes, but sometimes it plays out an aggro line that is neat

[@Daedric_Dylan]

As someone who no longer owns MTG cards and plays Arena as a freebie player, I love seeing all the videos you make with these very fun and rather unique deck ideas

[@thiagodasilvatls]

I... I watched the descent of a blue player into the red abbys. The more he pilot it the more he liked it

[@jangoeder8939]

Wow, the Mono Red vs. mono red (not calling these decks Gruul or Rakdos) was great. Starting player won by vomiting his one and two drops faster. Such skillful Magic rarely has been seen

[@burdseed8209]

I would love to see you play the Simic crab/terror deck (the one shaqfu played). I’m not sure if it’s an entertaining deck to watch but I’ve always had fun with it and it’s a great way to rank while trying to collect wildcards since it’s rather cheap.

[@LordZurkov]

In the game versus Shaqfu, I think you were playing much too conservatively. You had a chance to trade your Heartfire for a Terror instead of chumping (arguably good to save the Veil to protect from bounce, but removing a Terror and getting in 2 more death damage is big), and you definitely should have forced them to bounce or die with the impulsed Rage. A bounce on the attacker wouldn't have lost you any resources (Rage was use-it-or-lose-it, the mouse couldn't block, and it had haste), and drawing out a bounce there could have stopped them from bouncing something more important later (e.g.: blockers or an attacker with real resources behind it).

[@thisispotatos9957]

I realize watching these decks that they are so, SO boring. I don't see how people grind with these. If CGB, argubly the best MTG entertainer, can't make them seem fun then they are just stuck being boring.

[@CoL_Drake]

you make people play this deck and hten you complain people play this deck vs you xD

[@mathieupoulin5254]

With all these aggro videos i'm starting to get the impression CGB is actually having more fun as a red gamer.

[@darkmega97]

He's a red player now, it's so over

[@christiandittrich2608]

Not really, he says patience all tthe time 🤣

[@lancelee338]

I made a deck similar to this during bloomburrow, but the one day I brought it, I faced a homebrew simic landfall deck (the guy called it simic burn, because the idea was to play a bunch of OTJ ping lands and copy them with Doppelgang) and a selesnya mounts deck. I felt so bad for playing such a tryhard deck on a fun day, and I don’t like playing with pump spells, so I took it apart and never touched it again

[@tuomasronnberg5244]

Simic and Selesnya color combination is called Bant, after Shards of Alara.

[@lancelee338]

@ typo, whoops

[@david21216]

Saw a cool video the other day basically using that deck idea but adding grievous wounds 😈

[@OGNoNameNobody]

...One Basic Forest. One basic changes the outcome of that game.

[@fisnoun8639]

Always watch CGB to know what decks I'm going to be facing in arena today

[@frozentyphoon2049]

It's ok cgb we miss lethal at times. Couple of games ya did but it's all good.

[@mobapediaofficial]

It's weird seeing cgb saying "how much damage we can do" 😂

[@Vytautas99]

In that game with shaqfu, CGB could have powered up the Ridgeline ftw.

[@SirFatCatt]

He didn't have Ridgeline

[@undahraadaundahraada5594]

Isn't Royal Treatment strictly better in these kind of decks? You get hexproof, a sticky +1/+1, but added Ward 1 for the rest of the time the creature is out, and something to sacrifice against decks that like to require you to sac things (Viper, Valgavoth, Braids, etc.), or to Bargain to Torch. Admittedly it doesn't stack +1/+1s like Snakeskin Veil, but how often is that an issue?

[@BenOrBreak]

Doesn't stack with the roles from Monstrous Rage either, which are a much bigger part of the deck.

[@undahraadaundahraada5594]

@@BenOrBreak Well, a dead DPS does no DPS... There are points when that would matter a lot (after blockers but before any damage), but that's not generally when people target your creatures. I have to concede that losing Trample for *later* when you could have it for the lifetime of the creature could be a real problem though.

[@jamesmathieu7155]

Come on baby light my Fire! Go Cgb!

[@boogerCPT]

You had the mana for the rage....

[@jmjw740]

He meant for rage and hold up veil

[@boogerCPT]

@jmjw740 thanks dude...I thought I probably misunderstood...i thought if he left the vail and just played the rage he would have had lethal..I must actually watch it again 🖖

[@rickmel-q7m]

19:27 cgb has been doing so many crossover videos that he forgot creatures are spells

[@jayzzay]

He says creatures and spells for everything now. I think its a good thing considering that there are a lot of hearthstone/yu-gi-oh players coming in.

[@canis39]

Creatures are actually not spells when it comes to prowess triggers, which is what he was looking at.

[@horatio_]

If been having loads of fun with Rakdos Viper / sacrifice. Enjoy RED MAGE CGB sass though.

[@cavejohnson4054]

All I see is Covert enjoying playing red.

[@SlappinMTG]

I just have never been a fan of gruul but still try to learn something lol

[@dirkpretorius9454]

lol, love that intro

[@Cronolv]

I was rooting for that azorius control guy. Thankfully he beat this dumbass deck.

[@slayerdark0]

The layline got banned?

[@PTNLemay]

16:47 In what way does he not have the mana for Monsterous Rage, why can't he use the one from that Thornspire Verge? EDIT: oh he needs that spare mana to keep the shields up via Snakeskin, right

[@solarupdraft]

Yay gruul

[@kindspot]

Love the content, but please, at the very least ask another content creator about how to win with red decks. It's painful to see the failed lethals because of control deck thinking 😅. Keep producing quality content, I watch the videos every day after work and it's always a joy to watch 🙂

[@bradblackwell8410]

Blasphemy!!!!

[@Deadly-Shunpo]

This is most empathetic I've seen CGB be about red agro, I think he.. finally gets it?

[@yavivanov6650]

It's dumb deck for boring people

[@Deadly-Shunpo]

@@yavivanov6650 I mean it'd argue (non leyline) red like this beyond more skillful than undercosted murder/counterspell spam and find that gameplay extremely dull

[@lordpye]

Less thinking. More mashing

[@Daddymcgoo2000]

Do NOT craft this deck if you don't have some of the cards. You will play nothing but mono black removal. Super unfun honestly

[@jemandanders6160]

Not true, you'll also play black blue, Black Green and on occasion even Black white. >_> So... many... bats...

[@kingjames4886]

na, I beat the game... AMA.

[@AljoschaAmbrosch]

I might be trippin but I think the only red Deck in the Top8 was mono red. A Deck you showcased before.. "This" gruul list didnt make the cut, just like JED

[@Scoob3rs]

Wrong, a Gruul list was def in top 8 and it wasnt JED

[@AljoschaAmbrosch]

@@Scoob3rs nah it was Quinn with mono red mice

[@SigmaTapion]

CovertGoRed

[@venger5705]

CGB is losing it and it's fabulous !

[@jessicameadows7258]

I hope you've learned a valuable lesson from this. Skill and thinking doesn't help you win as aggro, you just need to be lucky!

[@EdC-x9j]

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[@adamgreen6051]

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[@WitnessedOne]

I got utterly destroyed by this deck playing a control deck... control is legit unplayable currently. Absolutely terrible

[@bradblackwell8410]

🤢🤢🤢

[@carlosrenner]

Why the intro is an Alexa?